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The Duchess of Malfi Full Cast Announced Press release: Thursday 17 October The Almeida Theatre announces the full cast for Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall’s new production of John Webster’s revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi. Also announced today is a week’s extension, with the production now finishing on Saturday 25 January 2020. THE DUCHESS OF MALFI by John Webster Direction: Rebecca Frecknall; Design: Chloe Lamford Costume: Nicky Gillibrand; Light: Jack Knowles; Sound: George Dennis Monday 2 December 2019 – Saturday 25 January 2020 Press night: Tuesday 10 December 7pm “Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust” You fall in love. You get married. You have children. You live happily ever after. Joining the previously announced Lydia Wilson are Khalid Abdalla, Hadassah Allen, Leo Bill, Jersey Blu Georgia, Ioanna Kimbook, Michael Marcus, Ciarán Owens, Shalini Peiris, Jack Riddiford, Jethro Skinner and Kalungi Ssebandeke. Almeida Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall follows her Olivier Award-winning production of Summer and Smoke and Three Sisters with The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster’s electrifying revenge tragedy about rage, resistance and a deadly lust for power. John Webster (1580 – 1634) was an English dramatist and contemporary of William Shakespeare, best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi. Rebecca Frecknall is Associate Director at the Almeida Theatre. For the Almeida, she has directed Three Sisters, Summer and Smoke (also West End and winner of two Olivier Awards including Best Revival) and worked as Associate Director on Ink at the Almeida/Duke of York’s Theatre and Movement Director on Albion. She was previously on the Almeida’s Resident Director programme. Away from the Almeida, her production of Steel by Chris Bush ran in the Sheffield Crucible Studio in 2018. She was Resident Director at Northern Stage from 2015-2016 after winning the acclaimed RTYDS Bursary. During this time she directed Idomeneus; What Are They Like? and Julie by Zinnie Harris. Before taking up this role, she worked as a freelance director in London and has worked with the National Theatre, RSC and Young Vic. She was the 2012 recipient of the National Theatre Studio’s Resident Director Bursary and was awarded one of the Young Vic’s Jerwood Assistant Director Bursaries in 2011. ENDS For all press enquiries and images, contact Alexander Milward, Press and Media Relations Manager, on 020 7288 4911 or [email protected] ALMEIDA LISTINGS INFORMATION Monday 2 December 2019 – Saturday 25 January 2020 The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster Directed by Rebecca Frecknall Press night: Tuesday 10 December 7pm Address Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, London, N1 1TA Café Bar The Almeida Café Bar is open from 11.00am -11.00pm, Monday to Saturday Box Office Online almeida.co.uk Phone 020 7359 4404 (10am – 7.30pm, Monday – Saturday) In person 10am – 7.30pm, Monday – Saturday Nearest Tube: Angel / Highbury & Islington Website almeida.co.uk Twitter @AlmeidaTheatre Facebook facebook.com/almeidatheatre Instagram @almeida_theatre Access Captioned performance: Friday 20 December 7:30pm Audio Described performance: Saturday 4 January 2:30pm (Touch Tour at 12.45pm) Talkback Post-show discussion with members of the company Free to same performance ticket holders Thursday 2 January (after 7:30pm performance) Almeida Questions An eclectic programme of pre-show discussions, which consider some of the questions raised by the work on our stage Saturday 11 January 6pm – Does power corrupt? Notes to Editors CAST BIOGRAPHIES Khalid Abdalla plays Antonio. He previously appeared at the Almeida in Shipwreck. His other theatre credits include An Injury (Ovalhouse); Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere (Young Vic); The Suppliants (Battersea Arts Centre) and Tamburlaine The Great (Rose Theatre). His television work includes Hanna; Moving On; Electric Dreams and Spooks. For film, his work includes Undergods; Assassin’s Creed; Tigers; Our Kind of Traitor; The Square; The Narrow Frame of Midnight; Birds like Us; In the Last Days of the City; Green Zone; The Kite Runner and United 93. Leo Bill plays Bosola. He previously appeared at the Almeida in The Tragedy of King Richard the Second. His other theatre credits include Mephisto [A Rhapsody] and Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); Curtains (Rose Theatre Kingston); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic); Hamlet and School for Scandal (Barbican); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and A Woman Killed with Kindness (National Theatre); Secret Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith); The Silence of the Sea (Donmar Warehouse) and Posh (Royal Court and West End). His recent television work includes The Long Song; Strike; Taboo; The White Queen; The Borgias and Pramface. His film credits include Rare Beasts; Peterloo; In Fabric; Alice through the Looking Glass; Mr Turner; A Long Way Down; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Kinky Boots; Vera Drake; 28 Days Later and Gosford Park. Ioanna Kimbook plays Cariola. She recently graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her theatre credits include Bitter Wheat (Garrick Theatre) and her television work includes Inside No. 9. Michael Marcus plays the Cardinal. His theatre credits include Valued Friends (Rose Theatre Kingston); The Inheritance (Young Vic and Noel Coward Theatre); Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); Richard II (Donmar Warehouse) and Jumpy (Royal Court). His television work includes Siblings; Lucan; Ripper Street; The White Queen and Misfits. For film, his work includes Their Finest; The Theory of Everything; The Physician and The Invisible Women. Ciarán Owens plays Delio. His theatre credits include Love and Information (Sheffield Crucible); Tumulus (Vault Festival); Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal Bath and tour); Disco Pigs (tour); The Brink (Orange Tree Theatre); King John (Shakespeare’s Globe); So Here We Are (Manchester Royal Exchange/High Tide); The Crocodile (The Invisible Dot/Manchester International Festival); Oh What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Candide, A Mad World My Masters and Titus Andronicus (RSC); Mercury Fur (Old Red Lion/ Trafalgar Studios) and Our Country’s Good (Out of Joint). His television work includes The Last Kingdom; Strike Back; Crazyhead and Arthur and George. And for film, his work includes Red Joan and Where Hands Touch. Shalini Peiris plays Julia. Her theatre credits include Hobson’s Choice (Manchester Royal Exchange); Lions and Tigers (Shakespeare’s Globe); The House of In Between (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Macbeth (Tara Arts); Little Stitches (Theatre503); Drawing the Line (Hampstead Theatre); The Usual Auntijies (Belgrade Theatre); The House of Bilquis Bibi (Tamasha/Hampstead Theatre); Lotus Beauty and Zindabad (Tamasha/Gate Theatre). Her television work includes Danny and Mick; Vera and The Athena. Jack Riddiford plays Ferdinand. His theatre credits include The Inheritance (Noel Coward Theatre); A View from the Bridge and Macbeth (Tobacco Factory Theatre) and Junkyard (Headlong). His television work includes Invisible and Poldark. For film, his work includes Guns Akimbo; Dunkirk and Journey’s End. Jethro Skinner plays Pescara/Roderigo/Servant/Executioner. He previously appeared at the Almeida in The Hunt. His other theatre credits include Tis Pity She’s A Whore (Shakespeare’s Globe); Twelfth Night; Richard III (West End/Broadway); Skäne (Hampstead Theatre); The Odyssey (The Factory and Creation Theatre); A Soldier’s Tale (Mid Wales Chamber Orchestra); Hamlet; The Seagull and Cymbeline (The Factory); Romeo and Juliet (Vienna’s English Theatre); The Snow Queen (Library Theatre, Manchester). His television work includes The Royals and Wire in the Blood. For film, his work includes Plyus Odin for which he won Best Actor Award at the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival 2008. Kalungi Ssebandeke plays Malateste/Grisolan/Servant/Executioner. His theatre credits include Blood Knot (Orange Tree Theatre); Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre); We Are Proud to Present (Bush Theatre) and One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Eclipse Theatre/Kiln Theatre/Sheffield Theatres). For television, his work includes Doctor Who. As a writer, his plays include Assata Taught Me (Gate Theatre). Lydia Wilson plays the Duchess. She previously appeared at the Almeida in King Charles III (also West End and Broadway – nominated for Best Actress at 2015 Olivier Awards). Her other theatre credits include Fool for Love (Found 111); Hysteria (Hampstead Theatre); ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore (Cheek By Jowl); The Acid Test and The Heretic (Royal Court Theatre); Blasted (Lyric Hammersmith); Pains of Youth (National Theatre) and The House of Special Purpose (Chichester Festival Theatre). For television, her work includes Flack; Requiem; Ripper Street; Misfits; Black Mirror; The Crimson Petal and the White; South Riding; Any Human Heart and Peter Versus Life. Her film work includes, Star Trek Beyond; Love Is Thicker than Water; About Time and Never Let Me Go. ABOUT THE ALMEIDA The Almeida Theatre makes brave new work that asks big questions: of plays, of theatre and of the world around us. It brings together the most exciting artists to take risks; to provoke, inspire and surprise audiences; to interrogate the present, dig up the past and imagine the future. The Almeida makes argument for theatre as an essential force in an increasingly fragmented society. Since 2013, the Almeida has been led by Artistic Director Rupert Goold. During his tenure, notable productions have included American Psycho: a new musical thriller (transferred to
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